Diocese of Lubbock
Lubboken(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Lubbock, Texas, United States
The Diocese of Lubbock is a Latin Rite see covering 25 counties in West Texas, erected in 1983 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Bishop Robert M. Coerver has led the diocese since 2016.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1983
- Latin
- Lubboken(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Annuario code
- 001002054
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 136,000
- Population
- 494,458
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 27.5%
- Priests
- 72
- Catholics per priest
- 1,889
- Extent
- 60,532 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.2
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Robert M. Coerver
- Born
- 6 June 1954
- Birthplace
- Dallas
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Christ the King stands in Lubbock, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of San Antonio
A suffragan of Archdiocese of San Antonio.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of San AntonioSan Antonio
- Diocese of AmarilloAmarillo
- Diocese of DallasDallas
- Diocese of El PasoEl Paso
- Diocese of Fort WorthFort Worth
- Diocese of LaredoLaredo
- Diocese of San AngeloSan Angelo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
West Texas received its own Roman Catholic see when the Diocese of Lubbock (Latin: Dioecesis Lubbokensis) was erected in 1983 as a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Antonio. Christ the King Cathedral in Lubbock is the mother church, and Robert Coerver is the bishop.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.